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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Gracefully handle incompatible locale data
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:12:37 +0200
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Ond=C5=99ej, I think we have been miscommunicating.

I noticed that a program linked against 2.21 or earlier would abort with
an assertion failure when it stumbles upon 2.22 locale data.

All the patch tries to do is change the abort to EINVAL (and skip locale
data) when that happens.

I=E2=80=99m not claiming this is perfect, and I agree with you on that poin=
t.
I=E2=80=99m just saying that ignoring the faulty locale data and returning
EINVAL (which the application can choose to take into account or not) is
preferable to aborting.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.